After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

BECAUSE WE HAVE THE POSITIONS, BRIGHTNESS AND COLOR OF 2 BILLION STARS IN THE SKY, WE CAN MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ALL SKY MAP OF THE MILKY WAY. JOHN: BUT GAIA HAS CREATED MORE THAN BEAUTIFUL MAPS.

The iron in our blood comes from supernova — exploding stars. The hydrogen ... miles from earth. The Gaia telescope was constantly spinning in an effort to map the whole sky, Dr. Mac Low said ...

This hint was chased up by the European Space Agency's (ESA) star-tracking space telescope Gaia while it was building a ...

Spoiler warning: Below there will be information about today's New York Times Strands puzzle.

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

The Milky Way is around 10 billion years old and is home to more than 100 billion stars. This suggests there is likely a mind ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...